Let me out this first and foremost since guys aren't the only ones
who don't read people's profiles.
I rent a house in South Lake Tahoe, I am there some weekends but
spend MOST of the time in the Bay Area.

I started snowskiing almost at the same time I started
walking.
My skis were a little bigger than the remote control for your TV,
and Ive been hooked ever since. Been around the ski business my
whole life too. My dad and mom worked at Ober Gatlinburg in TN
where I started my habit. They split and my dad took a job as a
rental tech at a ski shop in Knoxville. Made it to manager where he
worked for 15 years. Now he is Director of Outdoor activities at
Ober. Its weird going home and going skiing and getting treated
like the bosses kid... better than the way I used to be treated as
a punk kid who skied and boarded like an idiot (I was a brat but
not dangerous).

Before I joined the Navy (5 years before joining the Coast Guard) I
lived in Maine briefly and among a few jobs there one of which was
following in my dads footsteps. I worked at Camden Snow Bowl as...
wait for it... Rental Tech! It was a great job! I set up the skis
for the learn to ski kids, and once all of them were out I had
nothing to do till 5pm when they were done. My manager always let
me take off and go skiing throughout the afternoon, while still on
the clock.

Its been my dream to live out west and go skiing out here. I cant
wait to explore!

I am in the Coast Guard, stationed in San Francisco. I moved here
to the Bay Area in May of 2010 and am stoked to finally be in the
area I've wanted to visit since I was young.

I am a Boatswains Mate, so my job is expansive and ever shifting.
What I do on a day to day basis really depends on the type of unit
I am stationed at. I was at a small boat Search and Rescue station
and my job was mainly driving the boats. We had a 47' Motor
Lifeboat (MLB), two 25' Response Boat-Small (RB-S), and until March
2010 there was a 41' Utility Boat (UTB) that was replaced with the
Coast Guards newest boat the 45' Response Boat-Medium (RB-M). I
miss driving them, doing SAR missions, Homeland Security Boardings,
and promoting boater safety with the public.

As of July of 2013 I am on one of the best ships in the Coast
Guard. So now my job differs somewhat, I still drive the small
boats but not nearly as often or as regularly. Right now I am more
mid level management. I run a small department of people that are
charged with maintaining, correcting and using all the necessary
navigational charts (both paper and electronic) to get our ship
anywhere in the world we may have to go and I also work on
buoys.
*If you've seen Dirty Jobs and the episode on the CG Buoy Tender in
SF then you've seen my new boat.*

Movies: 100's on the list, but some of my all time favorites are
The Bourne Series, Indiana Jones The Last Crusade, Hunt for Red
October, The Rock, Transformers (both of them), Across the
Universe, Pirates of the Caribbean (all 3), Sherlock Holmes, Star
Trek (all of them including the new one), Van Heilsing, 13th
Warrior, Silverado, Shooter, Sahara (a Dirk Pitt novel turned
movie), Turner and Hooch, Tombstone, Back to the Future series,
Crocodile Dundee, Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves, Wolveriene. Just to
name a few. ;)

TV Shows: The West Wing, CSI, NCIS, Modern Marvels, Man vs Wild,
Survivorman, House, No Reservations, House Hunters, How its made,
Ghost Hunters, and my all time favorite... TOP GEAR!!!

Music: I listen to all kinds of music, except screaming
metal.

I am what you can call a music junkie, I have 4 iPods and they are
all full.

You know what you want out of life. Or at least enjoying it to the
max.
You want to make a new friend.
You think I'm attractive, funny, or just really odd and want to
tell me so.
You like TheChive and the work they do promoting pay it forward.